The dawn of the age of holograms | Alex Kipman

Alex Kipman wants to create a new reality - one that puts people, not devices, at the center of everything. With HoloLens, the first fully untethered holographic computer, Kipman brings 3D holograms into the real world, enhancing our perceptions so that we can touch and feel digital content. In this magical demo, explore a future without screens, where technology has the power to transport us to worlds beyond our own. (Featuring Q&A with TED's Helen Walters)
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[@iluan_]

I miss the days when they put their commercials after the talks and not during them.

[@Torgomasta]

Whinge whinge whinge

[@DMIwriter]

+Torgomasta Such an eloquent, thought provoking, and insightful counter argument.

[@pumpuppthevolume]

search for hololens on youtube and sort by date a ton of developers r uploading content daily ....it's not just promotional videos anymore......search for hololens fragments

[@JaapvanderVelde]

You're being generous. Instead of 'during', I was thinking 'instead of'.

[@mrreality4679]

This VR is stepping stone for hologram . A real hologram is complicated because it requires lighting. Without it, you won't see what VR would want to show

[@AlexPizzini]

It's amazing how much he's talking and not saying anything.

[@SavorThaFlavorOfficial]

Probably one of the worst tedtalk speaker I've seen lol.

[@Rehd66]

Came here to post this. Dude is literally saying nothing the entire talk. Incredible

[@andreamullinix3362]

🤣🤣

[@humblymichael5823]

Lol

[@dawn609]

Lol 🤣🤗

[@3dpprofessor]

Is it ironic that his so called hologram reality is just 2 flat screens placed very close to his eyes?

[@whatsup7202]

Why? That gives stereo vision.

[@NikLyons]

Ted talk seems like controlled op.. Holograms don't need special glasses to see. The plane that hit the tower was a hologram that everyone "saw".. They want us to think that they are still working out the tech but the tech is just being leaked in a very controlled way.. Dudes got a nasa shirt on so you don't have to ask who's pocket ted is in

[@Adam-vp4oe]

I love how true your comment is

[@neatwheat]

exactly my thoughts while watching this. bifocal vision using 2 2d screens existed since millions of years. the 2d projection by the way seemed to have been quite well attuned for where she was standing LOL

[@latawshamaulson3897]

3D Printing Professor goteeeeem, he sat all those people down and showed them a rehearsal recording How did they get the footage of mars

[@valeriyanev11]

1.5g of magic mushrooms does better job at significantly lower cost...but the combination of both will be priceless.

[@robertraymond762]

Whoops.

[@Yikeo]

@james mack his name is best fortnite clips ofcourse he hasn't

[@wyattsmith9791]

Was just thinking a heavy 10g dose of mushrooms or a 10 strip is much better then any vr or holograms

[@jeanna7851]

@james mack I never tried a shroom that didn't have me hallucinating. Lol. And I never had much at all. Nowhere even close to a gram. Was a long time ago. Maybe they're not as potent anymore?

[@EvenStarLoveAnanda]

Also, you can Astral project to mars in your Meditation. We can do more with our Physical body already. But no one is talking about Smarter Humans, because there is no money in that. Technology is a crutch and will dumb you down until you are hopelessly dependent on it. And how do you know that who ever is sending you the data stream, will not alter the data to fool you with an illusion?

[@MarkArandjus]

Holograms are manipulations of light to appear as 3D objects in actual space. This is something projected onto a screen that you wear. It's AUGMENTED REALITY. It's really cool, don't get me wrong, but don't bullshit us with fancy titles like DAWN OF THE AGE OF HOLOGRAAAMS!

[@quarkyquasar893]

+Mark Arandjus Well, the glasses he's using would become smaller in future, just small enough to fit as a contact lens, then we can see 3D computer generated animated objects, just as he is doing, and with enough time those thing would be able to compute enough data that feels as if the object is really there, but still its just augmented reality but still innovating enough.

[@pumpuppthevolume]

traditional holograms r super limited and super crappy .....this works effectively as a hologram

[@lorsayden2403]

It does not, in any way shape or form, work as a hologram. A hologram is an image that appears in three dimensions. AR simply projects an image to a 2 dimensional see through screen, much like the HUD of a figter jet, only difference being that glasses are used in the video, but other than that, the technology to represent that image in AR and HUD is completely the same. With AR you have to have a personal set of glasses to be able to see the virtual objects (that are still on a 2D screen), a hologram is a 3D representation of the virtual object, in other words, it would appear to all as if it was there without the need for a personal set of glasses.

[@maggiemae6812]

Mark Arandjus hence the reason the title is the dawning of the age of holograms

[@WoodysAR]

Lorsayden BUT if you moved in 3D real world space, YOU COULD WALK AROUND and see the other side, and in stereoscopic 3D, . neither of those equal: 'flat'

[@xerotoninz]

Adblock missed this one

[@google_was_my_idea]

+Shrek T +1

[@SpiderMan-br4iq]

Shrek T Adblock only works for 15 and 30 unskipable ads for me

[@nicos9417]

So accurate Shrek. You always get right to the point, thanks for that.

[@maytons]

"We interact with devices too much"... 2 minutes later... "these new devices will be awesome" SMH

[@sisterfister698]

I think what he was "trying" to say is that we use devices that require us to give our 100% attention to the device and not to the living world. Now what I mean by that is, for example, lets say I am using Google Maps on my phone. Now in order for me to see where I am going, I have to take my eyes off the road and look at the phone. Yes I could turn on the voice and maps could just tell me what to do, but I'm a visual person, I have to see it for myself to understand sometimes. So even with voice I have to pull my eyes from the driving to look at the phone. With holograms I could be looking at the road and at the same time, my path could be highlighted somehow, completely eliminating the excuse of not seeing that car or stop sign and getting into an accident. I think thats what he means, but its just ranting at this point like Im doing.

[@layladodge3850]

haha...another fantastic comment that has made this all worth watching! Exactly ...

[@jaybabcock9123]

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Multiplayer games would be like your actually there, with you friends, walking around on mars.

[@arturskimelis527]

These are not holograms. This is VR. A hologram must be visible as a 3D object without the aid of any equipement.

[@sunnyboynfs]

This is AR not VR.. And ye its hologram cuz you can view it in 3d but only the wearer..

[@arturskimelis527]

Just Another Atheist Sorry, you are correct, it is AR. However they are not holograms. A hologram is not a hologram just because it is 3D. What makes a hologram is any 3D representation that needs no intermediate device. A 3d image illusion on a 2D plane is a hologram, the moment you need glasses to see said 3D illusion, it is no longer a hologram, it is just AR or VR. This is the definition of a hologram. A hologram must be visible with the unaided eye.

[@jamiesacco7261]

+Artūrs Ķimelis www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hologram

[@arturskimelis527]

jamie sacco www.dictionary.com/browse/hologram en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography Ok I still say that a hologram must not include any glasses, lens or camera to be seen. This is what I was taught in physics. That being said, I think they are using an actual hologram, only inside the glasses. They are using a glass medium close to the eye, simmilar to Google Glass. They just shape the hologram to match the environment. If it was scaled, 10 people would all see the same thing from 1 source. So yes I guess it's a hologram. I got a bit confused by the fact that nobody else saw it, but it's much more logical to keep a hologram at a very small scale. You would need large humansize glass mediums like the one used in Tupac's holograms.

[@arturskimelis527]

jamie sacco Think about it this way. A hologram is in of itself a 3D illusion and must be seen as such without any special equipement. If holography could include any glasses then I 3D movies could be considered holography, which they are not, of course.

[@CharlesDourdy]

Is this a TED Talk or a product sales pitch?

[@8sliterallyAike]

TED talk nowadays.. is sales pitch. mostly

[@eltmg7135]

God damn it... yes he's kinda awkward and talks really weirdly, and yes it's basically just a commercial for the HoloLens, and yes, it's also AR and VR, not holographic, but come on guys... you can't tell me it isn't still fucking cool. If he can today (or.. two years ago) interact with someone as if he was there, minus physical interaction, with just these glasses, what does this say of the future he talks about? Actual holodecks, you can essentially be somewhere without being there... it's not now or tomorrow, but it shows that it is the future and it's fucking exciting.

[@claytondaddy]

El TMG , he talks different because English is not his native language, Portuguese is, Alex is from Brazil.

[@teapot5530]

"We will put people back at the center" and "I can make all of you into elves." Now THERE is a nice pair of self-consistent ideas!

[@hawk0485]

There is no substance. To use your words: There is no idea worth sharing in this video. He speaks so broadly, that, in the end, he says nothing at all.

[@valepizarro7879]

xDDDD

[@KenHeslip]

+hawk0485 Jesus. We're so jaded these days.

[@hawk0485]

+Ken Heslip Not so, you have to put things into context. TED talks have created a very high standard. This talk does not do justice to that standard.

[@Leo-hk6qg]

+hawk0485 My exact thoughts, he was describing the kind of thing anyone could think of, not a unique idea.

[@naybobdenod]

+hawk0485 Your comment has amused me :)

[@ackrinstreams9098]

none of those things are a holograms. They were augmented reality. I expected better from TED. This just seems like a giant commercial.

[@mcsdaver]

Augmented reality is better than holograms. Try to walk through a hologram.

[@mikewazowski1314]

@Count Roy What? Are you ok?

[@mikewazowski1314]

@Count Roy What are you questioning about me?

[@starrocks1785]

@@mcsdaver I'd rather feel the hologram than walk through it.

[@mcsdaver]

@@starrocks1785You can't feel a hologram, but you can feel in AR and VR. The people and animals in the VR games I am working on are there, you can bump into them, even touch them. You know they are there and they know you are there also.

[@boycegillette1742]

Absolutely amazing. Fabulous speech clearly articulated. Very very exciting new steps in holographic computing.

[@nologin5375]

From what I can tell what he demonstrated here is just AR with a separate camera rending the space to a screen. Also I like how he avoided the fov question because I’ve used a holo lens, and it was cool but not as great as he makes it out to be.

[@kobayashimaru8114]

Ok TED should know better. There is nothing holographic about Hololens. Why does this term continue to be misused and why does no one seem to know or remember what an actual hologram is? Just because AR tech can simulate the image of a sci-fi-style hologram it doesn't make it a hologram.

[@vilemuse]

+Kobayashi Maru its close enough lets not get all technical....its just a presentation

[@kobayashimaru8114]

+Cackling Muse "Close enough" is not something that TED is known for. It's actually CNN's fault for popularizing the term incorrectly and intentionally. They literally fooled viewers into thinking that they had a hologram and everyone ate it up. Microsoft is just capitalizing on the popularity. Anyway it's not even close at all. It's like watching a video of a hologram on your TV and then calling your TV a holographic device. We don't have holographic technology even close to what the hololens is pretending to be. They should call it what it is: augmented reality. What are we going to call real holograms when they arrive?

[@eclecticjon1019]

+Kobayashi Maru totally agree with you. This has absolutely nothing to do with holograms.

[@rbbrum110]

+Kobayashi Maru That's a good point. That 2pac hologram was an actual hologram. This is just VR.

[@eclecticjon1019]

+Divinecomics This is just AR.

[@Mr.Donahue]

Microsoft: these are not holograms. This is augmented reality!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

traditional holograms r super limited and super crappy .....this works effectively as a hologram

[@redragon9588]

maby some day real holograms will be as good as augmented reality or near that, everything is being made by small steps just like phones...

[@DL-kc8fc]

@@redragon9588 The hologram is about diffraction and interference ... it is necessary to record the phase of the light wave in the emulsion layer - to freeze it in time ... to the true holographic world ... without 3D glasses and similar 3D gadgets. The hologram cannot be projected into the air, as in StarTrek. There is a projection of points in a pulsed manner into the air, but this is not a hologram. Projection on water vapor is not a hologram. Also, the mobile app for HUD á la pyramid is not a hologram. Neither lenticular technology on postcards is a hologram. Neither virtual 3D (VFX) is a hologram. The term "hologram" is a commercial sticker, as well as a quantum computer that is actually analog and that works with multiple states of the smallest information unit in superposition. The true hologram can be found in special workplaces, where it consists of a projecting and reference laser beam ... at my workplace, for example.

[@hemabannagare719]

True

[@praimjohnson6968]

Thank you guys for making this wonderful device! Imagine how much easier would studying be with such a device. Imagine how the whole class can visit a certain time or a president that has passed away hundreds of years ago. Time for the future and past to come to forth at our demand.

[@VIRGONOMICS]

“ Imagine living in a fake world without ever leaving your room “….

[@NoxMarcus]

So many words; so little said. What was the idea worth spreading? It seems I missed it. I would have preferred to just watch a regular commercial, at least then I know I'm being bullshitted from the start.

[@mohjb]

Exactly, thank you

[@EvenStarLoveAnanda]

The idea is that they want you to live in the Matrix. So they can monitor and control your every move.

[@christinewhite4583]

@@EvenStarLoveAnanda thats scary. and why are they!? because they can?

[@EvenStarLoveAnanda]

@@christinewhite4583 Because they are insane Psychopaths and Control-Freaks. And they always want money and Power.

[@cilvet1]

oh, so here is the hololens ad at TED

[@tomasspace4819]

+cilveti You mean another. 6 days ago there was diferend one.

[@borisbrian6082]

_Freeing ourselves from traditional computers_ To what lock is in to *the Oasis* ?

[@Christophercles]

This guy was clearly leaving space for applause that never came.

[@aidanmattys7488]

As what happens when you present ideas with no product of said ideas

[@JonathanHartwig]

Describe the internet to someone who's never heard of the internet and you'll get the same responses you're seeing in the comments section here. Unless you possess vision, you're not going to get this just yet. The potential for it is essentially limitless. Also, his Q&A was the best. Pretty stern yet polite mic drop.

[@djnape87]

I've worn one, experienced the Mars demo for about 20 minutes. It is as amazing as it looks in this video and more. I was absolutely impressed, and that was with high expectations. Unfortunately, he completed bullshitted his way past the fov question. While the visor crosses 180 degrees across your face, the hologram projection is only a small square directly in front of you, which id guess is about 45 degrees horizontally and vertically. It's comparable to an old View Master 3D toy we had as children. I wish they'd just be straight forward about that, as there's no need to apologize for the amazing direction they are taking computers. This is gen 1... Think of the first iPhone compared to the latest... In 5 years this tech will be as common as tablet's are today... and all the skeptics will be eating foot.

[@JonathanHartwig]

Someone who's never heard of it mostly, either now, in the future, or before the internet came out. That would be the full potential set of those who have never heard of the internet. They wouldn't have known or couldn't know how to comprehend what it is unless you actually immerse yourself or have a huge capacity for imagination.

[@pikachulove5468]

Aaron Forbes Some people in poor places or tiny aboriginal villages. Or the kids in the Amazonian first village. Lots of other examples.. but cannot find the energy to knowing whom they could be. Oh, Perhaps even those living in North Korea that work on the farms as well? But you are right there is not many people who don't know what the internet is and what it's made for.

[@happysmash27]

What's wrong with screens though? The main potential I can see this is more accurate 3d design with better depth perception, but other than that, I don't see the problem with screens.

[@aesbj9228]

9:51 to the left. That's about how excited I got from this.

[@trcmf]

A true statement

[@raskal8578]

+LeCockSportif Lol you saw him smile when the idiot brought up the moonlanding?

[@nea1314]

I'd imagine the whole thing being pretty boring for the live audience. That guy is seeing the images through his glasses and we see it edited into the video, but they just see a guy looking at an empty stage, wearing weird glasses. Not the most entertaining thing

[@TheChris2627]

a esbj

[@izzzzzz6]

So many bad comments below. This is amazing. It's a whole new future of virtual interaction. Extremely realistic overlay. If it looks that great now in the goggles then imagine what it could be like in the future. You could be 100% immersed in a different reality. It's about as close as anyone has got to in reality, only science fiction has tried to represent such ideas in the past.

[@FDE_Acts]

wow mind blown... the levels of excitement this brings to me is just next level :)

[@Dreadwyn]

"I'm actually in three places" No you're not...

[@Destro7000]

+Dreadwyn True. He's in 1 place having a phone call.

[@ASTCify]

This is almost identical to a parody of TED talks.

[@CorpseTongji]

why are yall sleeping on how good this tech demo is like sure its a demo and essentially an ad but COME ON ITS COOL

[@mohitsahoo5225]

Thank god finally a positive comment

[@catchison8671]

Such an amazing presentation!!! Thanks for sharing these incredible insights and advances in the field of holographic imaging and technology!!!

[@emptyslot6972]

Ted has become an advertising platform. Like the guy that talked about his machine that can make a plant taste like it grew anywhere in the world. He was just selling this to rich people, he didn't solve any problem other than his own financial one.

[@bpansky]

"We are able to collapse reality into a single matrix" k

[@LargeBanana]

+Daniel Renard ah now i understand.

[@MonkeyAmmo]

well yeah that's wrong because we need tensors to describe reality.

[@EpicFishStudio]

but you can represent tensors like any data in bits so whatever. the only problem is quantum states which are just preposterously inefficient to compute and store

[@alyssiabride7260]

@@quinnrobinsson1646 Exactly! Isn't that something that should be a concern to a majority of people or are we the minority? The more of these talks I listen to, the more concerned I become about the path that all of their "rapidly advancing technology" is leading humanity. They very definition of technology is changing from technology being the application of scientific knowledge to technology is a Divine entity, creating, implementing and in control all of this brand new advanced technology (that is coming out of now where) at such a rapid pace that the scientific community itself as well as the hundreds of affected industries in which all this new tech is being implemented are struggling to keeping with. That is very, very concerning.

[@MonkeyAmmo]

@@EpicFishStudio no, not every tensor can be represented by bits. its the same reason why real numbers cannot be faithfully represented by bits. it is true for multivectors though, but not for tensors in general

[@apokalypzrecords]

TED is awsome...wow...i always end up listening to someone very interesting...about just the right subjects i wanna hear...and i endup seeing the big letters in the back TED( i wish for a world like the movie ¨ready player one ´)

[@timearly5226]

Years ago while watching Star Trek, I realized they could network the holodecks to present holograms of people to each other for interactions. We're now a few steps closer.

[@theminista4499]

I was also thinking of Star Trek

[@anzoraslanukov5048]

Wow, the first ad on a Ted show.

[@zedooncadhz]

So tired of this generic point about how people stare at their screens and don't communicate any more

[@Taladar2003]

+zedooncadhz Especially considering people in RL do not really communicate in any meaningful way either. They are so busy projecting how they want to be perceived that no true communication happens.

[@ninjastah]

+Taladar2003 The term true communication will continue to evolve.

[@CampingforCool41]

The most ironic part is people are communicating more than ever in the history of life on earth. A different kind of communication than face to face, sure- which has advantages- but communicating nonetheless. Never before in history were we able to instantly write to random people on the other side of the world about any topic we want.

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

I am with ya. Those ppl fail to realize that we are communicated 1 million times more than they ever do through all of our networking online.

[@esper86]

@16:45 " The points of Love... uhhh.. i mean the points of light" :P hahaaa

[@liker1829]

Over a decade ago I heard Michio Kaku make a prediction that each of us would have a personal AI assistant. Rather than it being a robot, it would be a halographic virtual assistant that would be present with us whenever we called upon it. This virtual assistant would not be limited by our physical enviornment as a robot would be. As he described it, the AI could be a shark swimming around the room interacting and communicating with us. This video from Alex Kipman is making that prediction a reality. This is such an exciting development and something that I look forward to greatly.

[@chadwilsonlouis]

I remember seeing that. Thinking then it would definitely happen but thought it would be much more time to come. Its on baby!

[@liker1829]

@@chadwilsonlouis Thanks for your comment. I have looked for that video many times and couldn't find it again. It left an impression on me and think of it often. Nice to know someone else remembers it also :)

[@koraxsan]

Hover-boards that do not hover and holograms that need special headgear to see, that is just using words but not using their meaning.

[@Quicksilver_Cookie]

Interesting technology with massive potential. Extremely lame presentation, badly written speech. So many words were said with so little meaning. No clear message.

[@adriangutz]

Just watch some Microsoft speech of the 3d hologram thing

[@roidroid]

Just watch ANY video by Microsoft. The company is infested with marketers, there's nothing left.

[@mattk.3645]

Has Microsoft ever done anything well?

[@flurng]

YES! MS-DOS worked extremely well! True, compared to modern operating systems, it's very limited, but when you flipped on the Big Red Switch, it just WORKED! - unlike Windows, where every time you SNEEZE you get half a dozen "virtual driver" errors. Bah!!!

[@Reth_Hard]

3:00 "If you are using a 2D screen, you are a fucking cavemen." Why am I feeling insulted?

[@AlacranesMX]

1:09 *This guy reminds me of James Donovan Halliday the creator of OASIS in Ready Player One* 🔑🗝

[@DavidJSmith-hl6kb]

Well, the Secret Space Program already uses this Holographic Technology since the 60's, it is Now the 21st Century (2019)!...Remember the Holographic Room on Star Trek?...I am Just Saying!...God Bless! 😇

[@munthon]

Only problem that there are no holograms, just augmented reality. Which by itself is fine, but if you state that there is a hologram then it is false advertisement.

[@brucewayne-cave]

+Muntis Grube Exactly, it is simply video trickery, not unlike the yellow football 1st down line. No freestanding objects, but rather a miniaturized set of IMAX projection glasses. Helpful? Yes. Hologram? No.

[@Diamnds10]

+Muntis Grube It's not projecting holograms, but you're *seeing* holograms, so there's still holograms involved. Potayto potahto.

[@munthon]

Extragorey yes the same as calling a picture of horse a real horse

[@brucewayne-cave]

Extragorey One is not seeing holograms. You are seeing 3D projections. You are seeing a 3D IMAX projection, on a small piece of glass. One would not go to a 3D IMAX movie and say I saw a bunch of holograms. It is simply an impressive video illusion.

[@Diamnds10]

+Muntis Grube Except nobody said there were real holograms, just holograms.

"Is the product equal to what the cameras show?" "That's not right the question to ask." (because the answer to that would be "No")

[@clewcringle]

That's verbatim what I said to the screen.

[@kubilayunver5381]

"This is the next step of evolution." As a computer guy myself, all I'm sayin is if someone says that, I'll runaway 😂😂

[@alejandronunez7650]

5:54 the guy with the blue book is dead... lmao..

[@capsl0ckd219]

i would've killed myself too if I had to sit through and watch this guy live

[@rromero7849]

Not dead..just bored to sleep lol

[@lordflako5324]

He's writing notes

[@billybobb3288]

No, the speaker is just so full of himself that all he see's is his own reflection. Thats why he keeps pausing and looking at the audience with that wacko smile..he's not actually smiling at them.

[@acidage]

ahhahhh yah

[@gwensmith7439]

I love this infomercial. I also love his crotchety old man attitude. Humans have interacted via writing since forever. How is a letter human interaction but a text message some foreign form of communication or interaction

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

13:10 "Perhaps some day we'll feel the...'' warmth of that skin on the woman in another star system. And without ping.

[@ibra_elnoobxd1353]

inyazserg Sergey Larin i dont believe in that one chief

[@salihawouda2992]

Truly an amazing presentation , the use pf holograms and augmented reality was truly incredible !

[@russelmendoza2402]

This tech is a great contribution for the future of humanity. This is just the first step, I'm excited about the possibilities that this tech will be able to do in the future.

[@happeechappee311]

15:08 When a question catches you so off guard that you turn into Kermit

[@tawkinhedz]

Happee Chappee that was hilarious

[@IyearnMusic]

That reality is called reality...you know non electronic things, human people interacting together without electricity.

[@ProjectLifeCommand]

@ 18:50 Now Jeff knows how it feels to be a ghost.

[@AnandAvikal]

Just wonderful!!! Thanks Alex!

[@iancloyd7592]

I like to speak... In three word... Phrases at a time.... I pause.... Constantly.... For no apparent reason...... God forbid.... I just speak..... Like a normal person

[@davemarx7856]

😅

[@rambert6604]

Hi!... I'm Dora!...

[@3dpprofessor]

Spock.... Bring me... the... ... ... holo projector.

[@natemallisa4137]

He has to listen to his pre-recorded speech through his earpiece and repeat it to the audience. Not as easy as it seems

[@eunao1664]

@rwr perfect lol he should lower the earpiece volume thats kinda simple... its not even stereo

[@oliviahall8646]

Hmmm... I wonder who this guy is promoting. Definitely not Microsoft

[@somnathbanerjee2057]

Your first 1:40secs talk, "...embrace who we are. My dream of technology on the human path" that sense stole my heart. We are technology. I can see you, wearing a t-shirt having a symbol of an owl. I believe you know the connection between owl and super intelligence?!! #Adore #Jupiter

[@mycommentpwnz]

I feel like I just watched a bad magician pull a rabbit out of a hat, and while the rabbits ears were visible the entire time.

[@Essenji]

These aren't holograms though, it's Augmented Reality. Holograms are things that appear in our world without the need of stupid looking glasses.

[@alfredcornflake5032]

wow... those rain drops at 6:18... I can't wait for the future I'll always be surrounded with those. This technology is just ridiculous.

[@qthefirsttimelord]

+Pol Lechicki Or you'll get something your own mind isn't quite ready for. My advice is to think of the Hololens as a red herring. What's important to note is that most people don't really care nor want to wear bulky headgear. No one's buying the Oculus, not just because of the price tag, but because of the desire for a real immersive experience where you're not feeling the headset. Don't think that Microsoft is not fully aware of this and publicly releasing things just for smoke and mirrors as what's really coming out will blow you away.. You have watched Star Trek, haven't you?

[@alfredcornflake5032]

+Q The First Timelord Remember the phone in your hands that allows you access to all the information that has been accumulated by mankind; was once a massive mechanical system the size of a house that operated on punch cards, and could only do simple operations and calculations.

[@qthefirsttimelord]

Alfred Cornflake I don't have a phone. Remember, I am homeless. I keep telling you that.

[@tabaay84]

His voice reminds me of Bert from sesame street.

[@anim8torfiddler871]

In 1969 I was lucky enough to enroll in a seminar with visiting Professor Nick Negroponte, Co-founder & director of MIT's Media Lab. He described (but we didn't get to experience directly) a project they'd just gotten up and running. They'd set up a football helmet with sensors to monitor the helmet's orientation in a 3D space, and installed two small Cathode ray tubes - one for each eye of the helmet's wearer. The orientation data were sent to a room-sized computer by a hard-wire link, then processed to calculate a pair of Stereo views of a 3D space, in vector graphics - just colored "neon" lines. The two views were sent back, one to each of the two display tubes, so the person wearing the helmet could slowly walk and turn about in a gymnasium, seeing a "virtual" view of a computer-constructed space. Clunky, but the roots of interactive 3D systems like Oculus VR™ have been more than six decades developing. It was heady stuff, just hearing about these developments. In my own undergrad days I only ever wrote a crummy Fortran program to play a lousy game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an IBM 360. Brutal. The real fun came working with 3D animation software 25 years Later at an arcade game company in Milpitas, CA. Now you can get professional workstations and software to sit on a table in your home for less than $10,000 to create theatrical quality graphics. Which means there are 10-year-olds whose parents gave the stuff to'em to keep'em busy. And they're using 'em to do something totally evil, like putting their parent's face on their own body, to call the school and threaten a law suit if teacher doesn't give a passing grade!

[@zachgriffin103]

oof

[@AlexthunderGnum]

This was such a long way of saying nothing.

[@DemonaruMusic]

This guy sounds like a supervillain.

[@victorolvera6482]

+TheOfficialPzycho5is I was thinking *The Plague* in the movie *Hackers* 1995

[@DemonaruMusic]

Yeah, I can definitely see that.

[@lizconnor3223]

Uh I TheOfficialPzycho5is Jc

[@jessiehermit9503]

The Riddler in Batman and Robin. LOL.

[@Adam-vp4oe]

Fahrenheit 451

[@goblinslayer6375]

Alex Kipman: You're under my Genjutsu.

[@jameskelmenson1927]

Fantastic, this is one of those investments and ideas, like lawn care or environmental protection, that doesn't really seem to do much besides make stuff look better. I imagine how much more people will want to learn, the ways they'll learn, how learning complex concepts and giving people the visuals they need to learn them will become a science. In a future where technology like this is ubiquitous in the classroom, there are a lot of pitfalls and opportunities

[@davidcopperfield2278]

Fuking advertisers took over TED

[@obsideonyx7604]

AdBlock?

[@davidcopperfield2278]

i ment the TEDs themselves... you have to watch the recent season of South Park to understand ;9

[@obsideonyx7604]

David Copperfield What's South Park?

[@mavenfeliciano1710]

Just another way for people to be *seclude* themselves in their own little bubble world. There is as much, if not more, distancing and seclusion from other people as there is uniting them.

[@L._.A-06]

MAVEN FELICIANO I mean you can still see people

[@L._.A-06]

And talk to anyone

[@roro-mm7cc]

stop bbeing so pessimistic imagine if in the future this was bbuilt into contact lenses and it was completely seemless from reality.. you could turn a dull room into something beautiful and amazing for example it could be used for ppl without the money to buy a real nice house. also eg you could just be working in your bboring office in the city but you could increase morale and happiness by creating a beautiful setting in nature ect - in the future when the tech is much smaller and the holograms work seemlessly with reality that is when this will massively take off.

[@kidwave1]

The love affair with technology has gotten out of control, and unlike this guy says, it IS NOT BRINGING US CLOSER AT ALL!

[@SirRebrl]

@@kidwave1 Attitudes like that certainly ain't gonna attract people to interact with you more. There are wonderful, amazing communities all over the internet, and families connected across oceans.

[@sheepleslayer586]

This guy looks like the villain from the movie, "hackers". Love it!

[@homerelesperance2857]

LOL

[@mohjb]

The plague

[@nicholashall1922]

"Ahhh mr. The plague we have a problem."😊

[@oneofthosepeople2101]

TED talks are the modern home shopping network.

[@youbigtubership]

Despite the fact that I think of Fozzie Bear when I hear his voice, and despite the sometimes valid concerns of the commentating cynics, it's still impressive technology and it was a nice fantasy presentation.

[@RobertTempleton64]

+youbigtubership : Well, I see and hear 'The Plague'. Sorry, Mr. The Plague. Where is his skateboard?

[@youbigtubership]

+Robert Templeton Not sure who you mean. Kafka?

[@mistermidenight]

this is augmented reality not holograms but its still amazing

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

Mr. Midenight read a scientific article to actually understand what an actual hologram is. Hint, it's not the what you believe to know from Hollywood movies.

[@mistermidenight]

May the Science be with You a hologram is something usually 3d that is visible in real space without the aid of specialized optical head gear. augmented reality is something that overlays with real space and is seen through specialized optics that are the source of the augmentation. what do i have wrong here may i ask?

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

Mr. Midenight Seriously dude, why don't you educate yourself on what an actual hologram is. I told it is not what you see in holywood movies like Star Wars. You can start with wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography What is created within those glasses ARE holograms.

[@makgreaterthenyou]

your link agrees with Mr. Midenight?

[@nito800full]

May the Science be with You, this link says Mr. Midnight is right ahahaha

[@christophschutz3810]

"I feel so limited, so socially isolated due to technical advance. So I put Glasses on my head, that prevent others from seeing my eyes und that prevent me from enjoy nature and life as it really is." - Alex Kipman

[@jacobbartlett331]

Christoph Schütz when did he say that? This feels like I just got woooshed

[@JPsena523]

Temos orgulho deste brilhante brasileiro

[@EAPoeProductions]

I saw no holograms in this video, just another (3d?) version of augmented reality.

[@majinmanmartianhunter4995]

this would make it really easy to control the data and simulate any reality or any version of data that you want. so people could visit mars but maybe its the version of mars that nasa or who ever controls the information wants you to see, i feel like once you have the power to start simulating the truth it doesn't keep you honest

[@Darthflips]

This reality of the 2d screens and the internet was promised to bring us closer. This new reality you speak of will only push us further apart. Technology has progressed at a speed that we cannot keep up with in a ethical and social way.

[@bretthernan7589]

Apart from various levels of audience interaction, theaters featuring live human players often expected silence from their audiences. Projected films too required of their viewers a completely silent attention, whilst the audience sat motionless in a darkened room, and so every other form of entertainment viewing that has since superseded these has similarly taken on those prerequisite isolating protocols for a socially correct deemed digestion of their content. The introduction of TV into the family home was an extension of this disconnection of human beings on a microcosmic scale, and from there each new medium has followed suit as one was replaced by, or was added to, this profusion of screens. Before TV, people used to more commonly read books, (coincidentally also shaped somewhat like these screens). The smartphone with accompanying access to the internet have somewhat reinvigorated the socialisation of a section of society that was previously potentially somewhat or almost completely isolated from one other because social media and comments sections (such as this) etc may create (or, at least, they offer) a necessity for interaction by human beings, whereas all of those previous applications for screens pretty much wholly restricted any type of communication by discouraging it, and so the smartphone and computer screen liberates human beings to a greater extent than those preceding mediums ever could. When it is not the device itself that is the actual focus of our attention, but the person(s) whom one is communicating with that the device aids by facilitating that communication, this represents an advancement for society, in general, and improves the quality and quantity of communication overall when compared to any of those previous mediums, few of which ever utilised that most important of all aspects of the computer, the keyboard.

[@dreedee]

and since when Augmented Reality is Holograms? A bit like those self-destructing boards are hoverboards?... oh TED... what has happened?

[@pennymac16]

I dream of the day humans don't need to fall back on technology to connect with people.

[@rorytizyte1129]

Well you dreamt wrong

[@ahquebueno]

+pennymac16 sadly those days are gone. I was a child when it used to happen. Don't get me wrong, I love this sort of stuff, but yea, growing up we had physical reality instead of virtual reality.

[@pennymac16]

+Luis Bueno And it can happen again =)

[@ahquebueno]

+pennymac16 I hope so too. Most likely in heaven

[@tesseracta4728]

I see cowardice when humans need technology to first make a connection... aka Tinder.

[@Ai-he1dp]

Amazing! The next generation will live with extraordinary Tech.

[@barryeldridge6982]

Thank you thank you thank you most awesome reality check I'm blind in one eye with no depth perception and these holograms will make my world a whole new place to live

[@ahquebueno]

iDon't know, but iFind this exciting! But the guy at 9:49 in the bottom left doesn't at all. He cant wait till its over.

[@TheMasterpulha]

cough cough .. sponsored by microsoft .. cough

[@adriangutz]

Well, it's a product from them

[@Destro7000]

"Buy our f'ing stuff!"

[@edinfific2576]

They BETTER sponsor their own commercial! That's what paid advertisement is.

[@Gioxtream]

WAIT A SECOND....."WE WILL BE ABLE TO PUSH AN OBJECT...AND THE OBJECT WILL PUSH US BACK? " NOW....THIS IS WHAT I PERSONALLY CALL....CREATING THE REAL MATRIX. MIND BLOWING STATEMENTS INDEED.

[@Satan666Official]

Imagine killing a boss and he swings back 🤣

[@OFWdatabase]

Monthly fee for connection to the services ?

[@ipissed]

This is hologram technology like the scooter that you stand on is a "hoverboard". Is this a new trend where if you can't have the technology that you want you just lie about it? The "hoverboard" is just a scooter, and this is just VR. Given the fact that there are plenty of VR companies around it is also an advertisement for Microsoft.

[@jamesmorris911]

This guy could easily become a cult leader.

[@rafaelcarrasquillo2621]

Lol..he gave off that typa vibe

[@stompthedragon4010]

@@rafaelcarrasquillo2621 all these Ted speakers sound creepy

[@Sideshow320]

I think he'd trip over his juicer and fall into an actual ravine at his jungle compound. Damn pesky real world!

[@boomerhgt]

He has zero charisma so no cult leader for him

[@dxmxo9427]

Bahahahah

[@scrumpydumpy]

Loved it...we can use this in corporate regular work culture like they have shown in avatar movie.

[@timo1949]

3:19 that look lmao

[@EA-gv2ph]

Why is everyone trying to sell augmented reality as holograms?

[@alexanderm7270]

why not sell it that way? I think it's playing to the fulfilment of the future that 'we' were promised, but I don't think that's unfair. It's the closest thing to holograms that we have.

[@alexanderm7270]

sorry, one more thing: true holograms are science fiction, but I don't see any harm in calling these holograms; there's just a screen involved.

[@EA-gv2ph]

Alexander M Because it isn't that. Holograms in the way "we were promised" don't include a device as a "window". The stratification of digital content over the real world using a device is literally augmented reality. At least for me when you say holograms the first thing that comes to my mind is the holodeck from star trek

[@EA-gv2ph]

Alexander M Also when real holograms are invented we'll have to create another word :C

[@Arms.Enthusiast]

+Enna Aiz how would you control these I have seen VR gloves useable as a controller so that's cool

[@BornUta]

"they will start learning your home" nice try microsoft :D

[@ciaareinthecommentssection9575]

The XBone already maps your house

[@daisyprice4736]

I think GOD made us the center of this 3d world that we have not begun to understand. If that device somehow was a microscope to let us walk through life being more sensitive to the zillions of moving parts we are literally surrounded by in our flesh, in our plants in the corner, etc. The problem is we "are" acting like people and are very disruptive to our environment instead of acting like the image of GOD and being "sensitive and considerate to our environment. I agree that this device has the potential to open our eyes to what we ignorantly see as inanimate objects and care about the hunger, pain, and loneliness of the humans we are surrounded by. I hope the next version encourage us to see the living world from the perspective that we were dropped in here to take care of it and each other, not be entertained by it. I think designing from a selfless and giving perspective will unleash the vast potential of this device. Truly allowing humans to knowledge share to help solve each other problems with out us risking catching malaria in the process. Education to children and adults from extremely qualified individuals who are not interested in extensive travel or in being full time teachers for little money, but willing to partner occasionally as guest speakers with educators. Totally exposing the majority of conference call, and meetings for the total waste of time that most are when we could be having meaning transfers and demonstrations that are truly interactive. The possibilities of increased interaction to support and help humanity is exciting. Truly international conferences that make visa's and passports a none issue. I want to figure out how to get employed at a company that is literally changing how we see one another. Will there be franchise, sales opportunities. I feel like this is a Windows 3.1 and can only image what the Vista Windows 10 version of this VR technology will look like. Can I invest? My 19 year old daughter is looking for a job. I'd rather she figure out what knowledge she needs to participate in shaping the vision of the future like this young man. I can see instead of calling 911, you pick up one of these things or EMT's can put one on as they get advice on how to properly give CPR or deliver a baby from someone who can see what they are doing. This could bring back doctors being able to do house calls again, and preachers to visit the sick and shut in. This could replace the telephone in place of the teleport. A whole new type of Ma Bell, Ma Port. I know his presentation was about going to MARS but I can see the applications in my everyday world. Whole new level of home schooling and tutoring. Instead of buy a computer, buy this device. I could keep going.....

[@AustinCatmull]

All the people hating on this talk, what does the T in TED stand for? This talk is right in line. Quit whining...

[@penseursauvage]

Ho wow, now it's a 19 minutes commercial for hololens, thanks for wasting my time twice.

[@toasternova]

God this is more cringy than live performance E3 demo's

[@dibayuin7859]

Shut up loser

[@MsMrFlintStone]

It’s annoying a f

[@rickard1200]

Why are we replying to a comment from two years ago lmfao

[@meltingdoggo8066]

ToasterNova how?

[@scyan897]

The answer is Bethesda’s fallout 76 jokes

[@jacktalansky9728]

This tech reminds me of Magic Leap technology. How I would explain this is how everyone could use it today. like using unlimited augmented computer screens. Architects being able to build an augmented building. medical schools using this to practice operations .

[@estherayewoh1077]

Amazing! If only he can be consistent